Force Shutdown VM via SSH ESXi

By rsebayang

For one of some reason, you might meet in certain condition to shutdown VM forcefully. Either through vCenter or directly via ESXi. But in this scenario we are talking about how to shutdown a VM through SSH via ESXi. It’s quite simple. Just ensure SSH service is up on associate ESXi and reachable from your…

The Transaction Log for Database vCenter is Full due to LOG_BACKUP

By rsebayang

On first day in 2018, when somebody still celebrating the euphoria, i got surprised from my team saying our backup process has failed due to could not connect to vCenter. I asked them whether they had an activitiy during last WE. They said nothing, then i open my laptop and login into the problematic vCenter.…

RVTools – Must Haveware for Your VMWare Platform

By rsebayang

If you don’t have VROPS to gather and collect information regarding such following; total cpu, ram, even storage which allocated on every single VM then you can use 3rd party tool called, RVTools. It allows you to get every detail of your VMWare platform and very helpful to inventory all of your VMs both within…

VM on Protected Site Showing “Managed by Site Recovery Manager”

By rsebayang

For some other reason you might found any kind of error above if you are using SRM (Site Recovery Manager) feature on your VMware environment, especially on version < 6.0.0 U3. It’s a bug actually and the permanent fixing is only to patch the vCenter using the latest one. For particular cases, it might impacted…

Unable to connect to MKS: Login (username/password) incorrect

By rsebayang

Recent days ago i have successfully completed upgrade my ESXi lab from version 6.0 to 6.5. The reason why i upgrade is just curious about it’s new features which might be useful for my own research. Post upgrade i found first impression when tried to access the host through web client. As you know that…

Failed to Deploy OVF Package. The task was canceled by a user

By rsebayang

Past few days ago, I had trouble when trying to deploy OVA into vSphere ESXI platform. The error message shown as subject, “Failed to Deploy OVF Package. The task was canceled by a user”. Tried many times follow couple article even KB from VMware didn’t work at all. Had check from the hostd.log unfortunately it…

Penjadwalan Hapus Snapshot VM Pakai Script PowerCLI

By Rachmadona Sebayang

Believe it or not. Sekarang Gue kembali lagi ke belakang meja. Beneran! Nggak pakai bohong. Sepertinya kali ini Allah menjawab doa-doa Gue yang dulu, yaitu punya kerja dengan jabatan keren dan digaji lumayan gede. Cuma ya itu, kerjanya tak kenal waktu. Tapi Gue juga yakin Allah punya rencana yang indah bagi semua makhluknya di alam…

vSphere 5 – Desain dan Implementasi Lanjutan (Bagian Lima)

By Rachmadona Sebayang

Sebelum baca artikel ini sebaiknya mampir dulu ke:   Bagian satu (Instalasi ESXi & vCenter) Bagian dua (Deploy VM) Bagian tiga (Instalasi FreeNAS & iSCSI Target) Bagian empat (Instalasi Datastore iSCSI di ESXi)   Lanjut ke materi berikutnya, yaitu praktek vMotion. Apa itu vMotion? vMotion adalah fitur VMware yang memungkinkan kita memindahkan VM dari satu…